Royal Medal / en Geoffrey Hinton recognized with Royal Medal /news-celebrates/geoffrey-hinton-recognized-royal-medal <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Geoffrey Hinton recognized with Royal Medal</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-08-24T12:09:12-04:00" title="Wednesday, August 24, 2022 - 12:09" class="datetime">Wed, 08/24/2022 - 12:09</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-medal" hreflang="en">Royal Medal</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-uk-0" hreflang="en">Royal Society U.K.</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-science" hreflang="en">Department of Computer Science</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/UofT14365_20170706_GeoffreyHinton_002-crop_1.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Geoffrey Hinton"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Johnny Guatto)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">Artificial intelligence and deep-learning pioneer <strong>Geoffrey Hinton</strong> has been <a href="https://royalsociety.org/people/geoffrey-hinton-11624/">awarded the prestigious Royal Medal</a> from the Royal Society, the U.K.’s national academy of sciences. </span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">A <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus</a> in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s <a href="https://web.cs.toronto.edu/">department of computer science</a>, Hinton is chief scientific adviser at the <a href="https://vectorinstitute.ai/">Vector Institute</a>, and a vice-president and engineering fellow at Google. </span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/royal-medal/">Royal Medals</a> have been awarded annually since 1826 for advancements in the physical and biological sciences. A third medal, for applied sciences, has been awarded since 1965. Previous University of Toronto medal winners include <strong>Anthony Pawson</strong> and Nobel laureate <strong>John Polanyi</strong>.</span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">According to the Royal Society, Hinton is being honoured for “pioneering work on algorithms that learn distributed representations in artificial neural networks and their application to speech and vision, leading to a transformation of the international information technology industry.”</span></p> <p class="elementtoproof"><span style="background:white">In 1986, Hinton and his collaborators developed a breakthrough approach that would realize the promise of neural networks and form the current foundation of that technology. They built on that initial work with a number of critical developments that enhanced the potential of AI and helped usher in today’s revolution in deep learning with applications in speech and image recognition, self-driving vehicles, automated diagnosis of images and language, and more.</span></p> <p class="elementtoproof">“It is a great honour to receive the Royal Medal — a medal previously awarded to intellectual giants like Darwin, Faraday, Boole and G.I. Taylor,” says Hinton. “But unlike them, my success was the result of recruiting and nurturing an extraordinarily talented set of graduate students and postdocs who were responsible for many of the breakthroughs in deep learning that revolutionized artificial intelligence over the last 15 years.”</p> <h3 class="elementtoproof"><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/ai-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-receives-prestigious-royal-medal-royal-society">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:09:12 +0000 lanthierj 176086 at